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hattie

i had the pleasure of meeting hattie newman recently and was a little surprised that i hadn’t come across her work before

amongt many other things she designs sets, makes elaborate paper installations and… well have a look for yourself

m / 04-12-2012 09:23 - tags: , , , ,  

blomkwist & louanza

meet ‘blomkwist & louanza’ a young dutch duo starting out in still/product photography, with an eye for detail and a focus on analogue means to an end, like these sunglasses shot against coloured perspex sheets and re-comped at a later stage

or the beautiful aerial portraits of deceased cars; see their website for more (and larger) images from their growing portfolio… one (well two) to watch

m / 30-11-2012 11:12 - tags: , ,  

talking tactile (first posted 23 nov ’12)

i promised several people that i would post a list of the stuff i mentioned last week at the ‘papier hier’ talk and here it is, probably a meaningless list of websites unless you were there, the topic was ‘tactile’ and these are some of the people and projects i spoke about in that context…

‘boven kamers’ book by moon brouwer

‘happy faces’ by dennis van gaalen

posters from sergio alves

the wonderful toaster project by thomas thwaites

the austria solar annual report

underwater images by alberto seveso

fictional film sets by daniel agdag

tactile photography dan tobin smith

tactile photography bela borsodi

swiss artist ‘bernard voïta’ (hard to find, google him…)

swiss artist felice varini

human trees by jody xiong

string art from gabriel dawe

toilet roll art from junior fritz jacquet

tactile typography by marian bantjes

intricate layouts and paper objects from peter nencini

nail art chen chun hao (or google him)

nail art goshka macuga

‘balancing blocks’ short by part & parcel

‘bag charms’ by christian borstlap

‘frictions’ short by steven briand

and here above is me together with mister ian wright whom i certainly would have mentioned in my talk, except that he was already invited as a guest speaker that day…
(image above courtesy of ‘willie kerkhof’)

talking tactile

i promised several people that i would post a list of the stuff i mentioned last week at the ‘papier hier’ talk and here it is, probably a meaningless list of websites unless you were there, the topic was ‘tactile’ and these are some of the people and projects i spoke about in that context…

‘boven kamers’ book by moon brouwer

‘happy faces’ by dennis van gaalen

posters from sergio alves

the wonderful toaster project by thomas thwaites

the austria solar annual report

underwater images by alberto seveso

fictional film sets by daniel agdag

tactile photography dan tobin smith

tactile photography bela borsodi

swiss artist ‘bernard voïta’ (hard to find, google him…)

swiss artist felice varini

human trees by jody xiong

string art from gabriel dawe

toilet roll art from junior fritz jacquet

tactile typography by marian bantjes

intricate layouts and paper objects from peter nencini

nail art chen chun hao (or google him)

nail art goshka macuga

‘balancing blocks’ short by part & parcel

‘bag charms’ by christian borstlap

‘frictions’ short by steven briand

and here above is me together with mister ian wright whom i certainly would have mentioned in my talk, except that he was already invited as a guest speaker that day…
(image above courtesy of ‘willie kerkhof’)

monobloc

german designer bert loeschner is having some fun with the iconic white plastic ‘monobloc’ chair

m / 20-11-2012 09:03 - tags: , ,